here we have the most important broadcaster in the world talking about:
shifting content to when you want it
interaction as part of the experience for all viewers
tv viewing maybe being as secondary as AM-radio listening was to a previous generation
and all you can do is say either that directTv/ tivo does that already for you, or that, hey, dosn't the Web do that?
wise up: the way that media is delivered in the US is out of date, irrelevant and beholden to commercial interests. Most viewers in the world aren't subject to all three of these disabilities, so why moan that you are?
just as with SMS, open standards DTV, decent FM radio and governmental mandates for OSS code, you're in the 4th world.
> But seriously, who checks out books at libraries anymore?
um, quite a few people
U.S. libraries circulate 1,947,600,000 items a year
Each day, U.S. libraries circulate nearly 4 times as many items as amazon
Five times more people visit U.S. public libraries each year than attend U.S. professional and college football, basketball, baseball and hockey games combined.
>Eliminating markets outside of Europe is a pretty large number of possible consumers to alienate.
Eliminating customers outside of America is an even larger number of possible customers to alienate. Doesn't stop most US tech companies from NOT delivering outside the US.
> GNOPPIX means that now I can hand 'em two CDs & > say, "This one brings up the KDE desktop & this > one brings up GNOME, so you can see what all the > brouhaha is about."
goodness, your friends and colleagues will understand why linux has (at least two) desktop environments? cool... have you given them a choice of shells, text editors and browsers too? maybe you should explain the whole QT-kde-isnt-Free/ gnome/ GNU thing as well....:)
> Xouvert is a piss poor name for a project. Not because it's french, but because its pronunciation isn't immediately obvious to an English speaker.
so, the fact that a product's pronunciation isn't "immediately obvious to an English speaker" is a reason that is's name is "piss poor", correct?
goodness me, should we tell nokia (short "o", yeah..), Guinness, Leicester Square, sergio tachini, nike (remember, NI-KEY) and "GNU/linux"?
rephrase - [blah] is a piss poor name for a project. Not because it's french, but because its pronunciation isn't immediately obvious to [the reader/ listener]
maybe. who is *ever* going to *ask*, verbally, for this by name?
"excuse me, do you sell "EX-OVER(t) please"
so it affects how people talk about it to each other? jeez, learn how to pronounce it them.
wait a minute....you're gonna try and compile this thing, and you're worried about how difficult it is to *pronounce* ????
Name sucks...from a US English viewpoint, you mean
Many people (gasp!) don't have English as their first language - or do, but speak other languages - certainly enough to know that 'ouvert' means 'open'
Many other people don't judge apps by their name, either.
NO! DONT STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS - people who wouldn't have otherwise stood up for their (legally enforced) rights might have to pay slightly more for their computer - while you save 200 bucks on yours.
how selfish is that?
think about the little (lazy) fella and the vendor - who obviously don't have enough money already - PER-lease
unfair - but true for me at least in the past
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>"These remain challenging times for many American Internet companies," wrote Rep. Cliff Stearns.... "We ask that they be given a fair chance and a level playing field."
Yep, and so do the EU businesses (living in equally challenging times)- who want VAT levied on purchases made outside the EU, just as they currently are on purchases made within the EU
So, although this will hurt my wallet, as I buy good online from outside the EU, I will benefit by the increased taxes raised by my government, and by the level playing field which now operates between Us/ EU companies.
It *wont* affect US purchases, so US readers can continue flying the 'no-tax' flag all they like
>If I bait the *AA into prosecuting me, falsely or otherwise, I'll lose lots of money and time defending myself
um, no. why bother defending yourself? if you did echo/dev/null as big_copyrighted_thing.avi - you haven't done anything wrong! so even if you don't turn up, what can they do?
1) AOL cares nothing about the browser wars - they wanst customers - period 2) AOL getting.75 bil USD from MSFT is a win for them. It's.75 bil USD more than they'll ever get from Moz users 3) Since when did 'we' care two hoots about what AOL did or didn't do? Now, if they bought a gnu/linux vendor and started to ship knoppix-like CDs with everything locked down so their tech-support was even easier..... 4) APPLE used KHTML cos they liked it. Next iteration, they might use a different renderer for safari. They're allowed to! It's not political for them. 5) Isn't the desktop more important than the browser? Isn't the browser less important than the 'suite' of Net-scraping-tools these days? Isn't there space for a start up to run a bare bones distro w/ moz, OO, and some neat GNU audio/ video apps that the end-luser doesn't realise is a distro? Isn't that where the sweet spot is?
> Once you get used to the fact that it looks > different than a Windows installation you'll find > it's actually easier
Installation aside, once you get used to the fact that you sometimes have to update using the CLI (when the shiny packager thingy doesn't work), and that some things are a little 'unfinished' around the edges then hey, it's just like windows - except emacs runs faster and..er...if you have problems with an installation 'looking different' aren't you going to have a lot more problems further down the line?
Did this review tell anyone anything they didn't know about linux or MDK?
> I'd be very curious to know how running Linux on an Xbox is cheating.
it's not, and he knows that. It's just part of the redmond strategy plan to go after people that mess about with 'their' stuff, so that when, some day, some unlucky hacker breaches some law about modding/messing about/ having UNAUTHORISED FUN WITH A MICROSOFT PRODUCT in any of the territories that xbox is sold in, as well as the copyright/ 'IP issues' that they'll bring to bear in court, MS will also be able to tell the judge that 'they weren't playing fair, they weren't playing the game (halo...um..any others?) like a gentleman, they were trying to cheat'
if said judge is resident in a former colony of the united kingdom (CA, US, AU, HK, IN, all the biggies!), cheating at a game will be the worst thing the judge can possibly imagine, and the nut that wants to run blackbox on his xbox'll get sent down for a long time.
> You do know that advertising is what pays for TV programming, broadcasting, etc., in the USofA, don't you?
nope. consumers pay for broadcasting in the usa with the extra cost of their consumer goods due to the spend on advertising. The adverts don't come for free, and the companies advertising the goods pass that cost on to the consumer.
in countries with a TV licence, the cost is yearly/ monthly/ not-optional, but it costs *less* (unless you buy *no* consumer goods during the year.)
IF FMCG companies weren't spending the money on adverstising, your goods would be cheaper, and your TV viewing would be uninterrupted by ads.
Cringely doesn't mention p0rn at all, merely that it might be good for '...data you wouldn't want confiscated by the police.'
Maybe that's the only sort of data that/. editors would want to conceal:)
A different form of security is available to purchasers of wireless file servers from Martian.com. These book-sized Linux servers that were featured recently in the New York Times have no fans and use hard drives with liquid bearings, making the units almost totally silent. With a WiFi connection you can have almost instant Network Attached Storage for your PC, Mac, or Linux network with 120 gigabytes of encrypted disk space for under $500. There is literally nothing to configure. Just plug it in. Yeah, but who would want one of these things? I would, for one, but my friend David from the UK points out that such a device hidden away from sight would be ideal for storing data you wouldn't want confiscated by the police. Nestle a Martian box under your attic insulation if you have something to hide.
Isn't part of the problem - and possibly why so many Old World 'thinkers' (bureaucrats. politicians, Metallica (?)) get the Net, and associated new technologies, so very wrong - that some of these new technologies need new paradigms, new ways of looking at the world?
'Stealing' was easier to condemn when it involved an actual physical *loss* and the surveillance of people who encrypt their correspondence made (slightly more) sense when only spies encrypted.
Applying an 'old' view of what is ethical and what isn't is like judging modern trains by the standards of the 19th Century, when the idea that trains could travel at more than 15 miles an hour was absurd, dangerous and comical
The idea that a locomotive could attain such speeds was, at the time, astounding is told of the time when the great developer of the railroad, John Stephenson, was going before committee of Parliament to secure a railroad charter. He was warned not to claim a speed of more than 15 miles an hour. A member of the committee, in opposition to the proposed railway, attempted to embarrass Mr. Stephenson in this way:
Committee: Well, Mr. Stephenson, perhaps you could go 17 miles an hour?
John Stephenson: Perhaps 20 miles an hour Certainly.Twenty-five, I dare say.
C: You do not think that impossible?
JS: Not at all impossible.
C: Dangerous though?
JS: Certainly not.
C: Now, tell me, Mr. Stephenson, will you say that you can go 30 miles an hour
JS: Certainly.
At this they all leaned back in their chairs and roared with laughter. They imagined that this was the very climax of absurdity.
(Martin 1871: 159)
That isn't to say that all old morals and ethics go out of the window, but doesn't *teaching* how new tech. relates to ethics require a knowledge of the tech. itself?
In simple numbers,that's about 8 million households have Interactive TV in the UK. As a comparison, there are about 10 million Uk households with access to the Net.
In europe as a whole 'interactive TV was estimated to be available in 31 million European households at the end of 2002, creating a potential audience of 72 million viewers'
Less homebrewed than this cool hack, London Transport (LRT) has been operating a system of displaying (estimated) wait times for certian routes for a good few years
Some observations:
When I lived above a London bus stop, I could lean out the window and see when the next bus was due:)
This was great, but *useless* if it relied on scheduled times
LRT soon installed receiver/ transmitters into its buses, reporting a far more accurate ETA, as they could report bad delays in real(ish) time
sometimes I noticed humans on the end of the LCDs - eg once it reported 'awful traffic...no idea of arrival':)
Plans are afoot for the following: audio repeater, large Countdown signs at bus stations, hand-held Countdown terminals for operations staff and a central real-time travel information desk
> Then the company which got your money pays taxes on it.
if they pay tax on the US
>Then they pay their employees and that gets taxes.
if their employees are taxed in the US
>And it repeats on an on.
no it doesn't.
of course money supply is circular, but to imply that because *some* through-choice spending is taxed again (after the original salary has been taxed) it follows that *all* spending is taxed many times ('recursively') is just wrong.
Some consumer spending (after tax at the point of salary collection) is deemed taxable, and some is not.
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here we have the most important broadcaster in the world talking about:
and all you can do is say either that directTv/ tivo does that already for you, or that, hey, dosn't the Web do that?
wise up: the way that media is delivered in the US is out of date, irrelevant and beholden to commercial interests. Most viewers in the world aren't subject to all three of these disabilities, so why moan that you are?
just as with SMS, open standards DTV, decent FM radio and governmental mandates for OSS code, you're in the 4th world.
> But seriously, who checks out books at libraries anymore?
um, quite a few people
U.S. libraries circulate 1,947,600,000 items a year
Each day, U.S. libraries circulate nearly 4 times as many items as amazon
Five times more people visit U.S. public libraries each year than attend U.S. professional and college football, basketball, baseball and hockey games combined.
all from here (google cache) and here (original PDF)
And no, I'm not a library geek, I was just appalled at the naivety of your statement, and googled for those stats.
>Eliminating markets outside of Europe is a pretty large number of possible consumers to alienate.
Eliminating customers outside of America is an even larger number of possible customers to alienate. Doesn't stop most US tech companies from NOT delivering outside the US.
Maybe you'kk get used to it. We [in euerope] do.
> GNOPPIX means that now I can hand 'em two CDs &
:)
> say, "This one brings up the KDE desktop & this
> one brings up GNOME, so you can see what all the
> brouhaha is about."
goodness, your friends and colleagues will understand why linux has (at least two) desktop environments? cool... have you given them a choice of shells, text editors and browsers too? maybe you should explain the whole QT-kde-isnt-Free/ gnome/ GNU thing as well....
> Xouvert is a piss poor name for a project. Not because it's french, but because its pronunciation isn't immediately obvious to an English speaker.
so, the fact that a product's pronunciation isn't "immediately obvious to an English speaker" is a reason that is's name is "piss poor", correct?
goodness me, should we tell nokia (short "o", yeah..), Guinness, Leicester Square, sergio tachini, nike (remember, NI-KEY) and "GNU/linux"?
rephrase - [blah] is a piss poor name for a project. Not because it's french, but because its pronunciation isn't immediately obvious to [the reader/ listener]
maybe. who is *ever* going to *ask*, verbally, for this by name?
"excuse me, do you sell "EX-OVER(t) please"
so it affects how people talk about it to each other? jeez, learn how to pronounce it them.
wait a minute....you're gonna try and compile this thing, and you're worried about how difficult it is to *pronounce* ????
heh
Name sucks...from a US English viewpoint, you mean
Many people (gasp!) don't have English as their first language - or do, but speak other languages - certainly enough to know that 'ouvert' means 'open'
Many other people don't judge apps by their name, either.
> Makes reading slashdot much less annoying.
s s. annoying? :P
why.on.earth.would.i.want.to.make.reading./..le
NO! DONT STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS - people who wouldn't have otherwise stood up for their (legally enforced) rights might have to pay slightly more for their computer - while you save 200 bucks on yours.
how selfish is that?
think about the little (lazy) fella and the vendor - who obviously don't have enough money already - PER-lease
DELETE (time in secs to perform action)
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40.13(R4) 0.797 (ext3 journal) 0.837 (ext3)
woo-hoo! now it corrupts my data even quicker
>"These remain challenging times for many American Internet companies," wrote Rep. Cliff Stearns.... "We ask that they be given a fair chance and a level playing field."
Yep, and so do the EU businesses (living in equally challenging times)- who want VAT levied on purchases made outside the EU, just as they currently are on purchases made within the EU
So, although this will hurt my wallet, as I buy good online from outside the EU, I will benefit by the increased taxes raised by my government, and by the level playing field which now operates between Us/ EU companies.
It *wont* affect US purchases, so US readers can continue flying the 'no-tax' flag all they like
>If I bait the *AA into prosecuting me, falsely or otherwise, I'll lose lots of money and time defending myself
/dev/null as big_copyrighted_thing.avi - you haven't done anything wrong! so even if you don't turn up, what can they do?
um, no. why bother defending yourself?
if you did echo
they'll have to prove you broke the law, no?
unless US law is vastly different to UK law
some points:
.75 bil USD from MSFT is a win for them. It's .75 bil USD more than they'll ever get from Moz users
1) AOL cares nothing about the browser wars - they wanst customers - period
2) AOL getting
3) Since when did 'we' care two hoots about what AOL did or didn't do? Now, if they bought a gnu/linux vendor and started to ship knoppix-like CDs with everything locked down so their tech-support was even easier.....
4) APPLE used KHTML cos they liked it. Next iteration, they might use a different renderer for safari. They're allowed to! It's not political for them.
5) Isn't the desktop more important than the browser? Isn't the browser less important than the 'suite' of Net-scraping-tools these days? Isn't there space for a start up to run a bare bones distro w/ moz, OO, and some neat GNU audio/ video apps that the end-luser doesn't realise is a distro? Isn't that where the sweet spot is?
> Once you get used to the fact that it looks
> different than a Windows installation you'll find
> it's actually easier
Installation aside, once you get used to the fact that you sometimes have to update using the CLI (when the shiny packager thingy doesn't work), and that some things are a little 'unfinished' around the edges then hey, it's just like windows - except emacs runs faster and..er...if you have problems with an installation 'looking different' aren't you going to have a lot more problems further down the line?
Did this review tell anyone anything they didn't know about linux or MDK?
> I'd be very curious to know how running Linux on an Xbox is cheating.
it's not, and he knows that. It's just part of the redmond strategy plan to go after people that mess about with 'their' stuff, so that when, some day, some unlucky hacker breaches some law about modding/messing about/ having UNAUTHORISED FUN WITH A MICROSOFT PRODUCT in any of the territories that xbox is sold in, as well as the copyright/ 'IP issues' that they'll bring to bear in court, MS will also be able to tell the judge that 'they weren't playing fair, they weren't playing the game (halo...um..any others?) like a gentleman, they were trying to cheat'
if said judge is resident in a former colony of the united kingdom (CA, US, AU, HK, IN, all the biggies!), cheating at a game will be the worst thing the judge can possibly imagine, and the nut that wants to run blackbox on his xbox'll get sent down for a long time.
> You do know that advertising is what pays for TV programming, broadcasting, etc., in the USofA, don't you?
nope. consumers pay for broadcasting in the usa with the extra cost of their consumer goods due to the spend on advertising. The adverts don't come for free, and the companies advertising the goods pass that cost on to the consumer.
in countries with a TV licence, the cost is yearly/ monthly/ not-optional, but it costs *less* (unless you buy *no* consumer goods during the year.)
IF FMCG companies weren't spending the money on adverstising, your goods would be cheaper, and your TV viewing would be uninterrupted by ads.
Maybe that's the only sort of data that
From the 'beta questions' - yeah *right*, Mr RIAA
4. How many MP3/compressed audio files do you have on your following devices/
media format?
PC (More than 5000)
Portable Hard Disk based MP3 Jukebox (1000)
MP3-CDs (200)
__________
Gotta go, doorbell ringi-
Isn't part of the problem - and possibly why so many Old World 'thinkers' (bureaucrats. politicians, Metallica (?)) get the Net, and associated new technologies, so very wrong - that some of these new technologies need new paradigms, new ways of looking at the world?
'Stealing' was easier to condemn when it involved an actual physical *loss* and the surveillance of people who encrypt their correspondence made (slightly more) sense when only spies encrypted.
Applying an 'old' view of what is ethical and what isn't is like judging modern trains by the standards of the 19th Century, when the idea that trains could travel at more than 15 miles an hour was absurd, dangerous and comical
That isn't to say that all old morals and ethics go out of the window, but doesn't *teaching* how new tech. relates to ethics require a knowledge of the tech. itself?
> [Interactive TV] just is never going to happen.
,that's about 8 million households have Interactive TV in the UK. As a comparison, there are about 10 million Uk households with access to the Net.
Maybe iTV is never going to happen in the States, but just as with cellphones, DAB and many technologies that gain momentum through standards and cross-border co-operation , the US is being left behind, as Interactive TV is thriving in Europe, especially in the UK, and I'm amazed that many tech-savvy Americans don't seem to realise this
~45-50% of UK households *with a TV* have digital TV, and of them 65 percent of have access to ITV
In simple numbers
There are about 6.25 million households with digital satelite alone. All of them have access to very, very advanced interactive services. There are about 2 million households with digital cable, using Liberate middleware
The new Free to air DTT boxes are selling like hot cakes, and there are many Interactive services available through the BBC and others
Here's a wide range of iTV screenshots
In europe as a whole 'interactive TV was estimated to be available in 31 million European households at the end of 2002, creating a potential audience of 72 million viewers'
>Shouldn't they increase the capacity of public transit before they force people to use it
they are, loads more buses paid for out of the congestion charge.
They tried for years to do this (decrease Central London traffic) voluntarily and it didn't work
cclondon.com
Some observations:
Plans are afoot for the following: audio repeater, large Countdown signs at bus stations, hand-held Countdown terminals for operations staff and a central real-time travel information desk
Loads of info
Nice image - Nice image
blurb
Different words having different meanings?
What an enlightening thought. Will this concept ever take off?
brilliant, just brilliant. For many (native UK) English speakers the word is, indeed, 'defence'
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=defence as well as that old thing, JS Mill's 'In defenCe of Freedom'
http://www.essaybank.co.uk/free_coursework/400.ht
but of course that doesn't matter does it? Cos *you* say it's 'defense'
tomato, tomatoe, anyone?
> You do get taxe[d]s recursively.
not necessarily.
> You pay income tax on your salary.
If you earn above the salary threshold
>Then when you buy something,
if you buy something
>there is a sales tax.
if you live in a state/ nation with sales tax
> Then the company which got your money pays taxes on it.
if they pay tax on the US
>Then they pay their employees and that gets taxes.
if their employees are taxed in the US
>And it repeats on an on.
no it doesn't.
of course money supply is circular, but to imply that because *some* through-choice spending is taxed again (after the original salary has been taxed) it follows that *all* spending is taxed many times ('recursively') is just wrong.
Some consumer spending (after tax at the point of salary collection) is deemed taxable, and some is not.
RTFM
> If you hate this country so much, get out.
and on such proud defence of freedom, choice and the tolerance of dissent was the United States built.